June
22 (Madison, WI) – Jack
Riley, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago
Field Division of the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), and John W. Vaudreuil
, United States Attorney for the Western
District of Wisconsin, announced that David
S. Helgren, 25, Madison, Wisconsin was
sentenced today by U.S. District Judge
Barbara B. Crabb to four years in federal
prison for attempted possession with intent
to distribute 445 grams of MDMA (ecstasy).
Helgren pleaded guilty to this charge on
May 1, 2012.

On
March 8, 2010, the United States Postal Service,
Madison Wisconsin Carrier Office received
a Canada Post Priority Mail parcel from British
Columbia, Canada, addressed to D. Helgren
at an address in Madison. After obtaining
a search warrant to search the parcel, law
enforcement agents found 445 grams of MDMA
(ecstasy) disguised as cupcake ingredients.
Later in the investigation, agents obtained
a search warrant for the defendant's home
and found approximately 1,600 grams of psilocybin
mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, and marijuana. The
charges against Helgren were the result of
an investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement
Administration and the United States Postal
Inspection Service. The prosecution of the
case has been handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney
David J. Reinhard.